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Been searching around, and I haven't seen this addressed anywhere. Ran my old Nak 300's a few time with regular XLR cables into a two XLR>1/8" male cable into channels 3-4 on the DR60. Levels were so low it wasn't funny.

Picked up some new 300's in the YS and I'm going to run them with the DR70. This got me thinking: the original cable that came with these terminates into a 1/4' phone plug, which I believe that the DR70 will also accept. I know they originally came with this connector because they were designed to plug into a mixer or tape deck, but is there any advantage to running a cable like this into a modern recorder? Balanced vs. unbalanced or anything like that? Any insight is appreciated.

"the original cable that came with these terminates into a 1/4' phone plug, which I believe that the DR70 will also accept."

I use a set of the original Nak CM series XLR>1/4 cables plugged into channels 1 & 2 on both my DR-70 and DR-60D all the time and have had no issues.

But is there any advantage? Do you get a stronger signal or anything that you would just using regular XLR cables?

I get a signal that's plenty strong using the XLR>1/4 OEM cables and typically run those channels on the recorders Low Input setting, but I have not really done any comparison with running straight XLRs.

Thanks Billydee. Now I need to decide if I should run the shotguns. Old movie theater that holds about 1000 (which includes an expansion off to the side). I would be far enough back that I'm stack taping, but always had good results just using cards

Been searching around, and I haven't seen this addressed anywhere. Ran my old Nak 300's a few time with regular XLR cables into a two XLR>1/8" male cable into channels 3-4 on the DR60. Levels were so low it wasn't funny.

Picked up some new 300's in the YS and I'm going to run them with the DR70. This got me thinking: the original cable that came with these terminates into a 1/4' phone plug, which I believe that the DR70 will also accept. I know they originally came with this connector because they were designed to plug into a mixer or tape deck, but is there any advantage to running a cable like this into a modern recorder? Balanced vs. unbalanced or anything like that? Any insight is appreciated.

Been searching around, and I haven't seen this addressed anywhere. Ran my old Nak 300's a few time with regular XLR cables into a two XLR>1/8" male cable into channels 3-4 on the DR60. Levels were so low it wasn't funny.

Picked up some new 300's in the YS and I'm going to run them with the DR70. This got me thinking: the original cable that came with these terminates into a 1/4' phone plug, which I believe that the DR70 will also accept. I know they originally came with this connector because they were designed to plug into a mixer or tape deck, but is there any advantage to running a cable like this into a modern recorder? Balanced vs. unbalanced or anything like that? Any insight is appreciated.

Most of us have run the 300s with balanced cables forever with no issues...I run the TEAC ME-120s with the DR-70D to good effect.

Yeah, the attenuators are off. Also a 6db difference between the two, and it's not the caps, something about the bodies. I figure they are going to be good candidates for the chop and mod one of these days. I wonder if my low level issue is related to the XLR>1/8" cable....although I use it for board patches all the time.

Anyone know of a good place for a good test and tune up? I know about Sank, anyone else?